Utopia, Innovation, Tradition

Angela Ida De Benedictis joined in 2014 the Scholarly Staff of the Paul Sacher Foundation as scientific curator of more than 25 musical Collections. PhD in musicology from Pavia University; Director of the Scientific Board of the Centro Studi Luciano Berio. She has taught at the Universities of Pavia, Padua, Salerno, Bern, and Freiburg. She edited the writings of Luigi Nono (2000 and 2018), Luciano Berio (2013), Bruno Maderna (2020), and published books and essays of theory and analysis mainly featuring twentieth-century music.

Introduction

Staging And Performing Sounds: A Glance Through The Last Theatrical Work
- Angela Ida De Benedictis, delving into Bruno Maderna's Satyricon: the looking glass world of storytelling, performance interference, and authorship
- Benedetta Zucconi, "in the beginning was the word": the sung text as a unifying element in the composition of Bruno Maderna's Satyricon

Building Sounds: The Composer
- Carlo Ciceri, space in Maderna's last orchestral works
- Pascal Decroupet, the unity of musical practice: Bruno Maderna and his "shaping form" as composer and performer of experimental orchestral music

creating sound: the music beyond/without the stage
- Nicola Scaldaferri, "a walk through a musical garden": compositional paths in Maderna's late works
- Leo Izzo, narrating with sounds: Bruno Maderna's music for radio and film

reinventing sounds: dialogues with music of every epoch and style
- Michele Chiappini, the writing of the interpretation: notes on Bruno Maderna's arrangements
- Benedetta Zucconi, analysis and synthesis in Bruno Maderna's creative process:
Don Giovanni and other Mozart scores
- Leo Izzo, Bruno Maderna and his arrangements

Across Borders: The Conductor And The Interpreter
- Maurizio Romito, "this Bruno looks like Fiorello" Maderna in the U.S.A. (1965-72)
- Anne C. Shreffler, Maderna goes to Tanglewood: the role of American networks in
the origins and reception of Venetian journal and Satyricon

Searching For Roots: The Development Of A Style
- Veniero Rizzardi, Venice to Europe: Bruno Maderna before and after 1948
- Christoph Neidhöfer, "la révolution dans la continuité": the presence of the past in Bruno Maderna's creative process (1948-55)

Staging And Performing Texts: A Glance Through Early Dramaturgical And Vocal Works
- Claudia Vincis, the studi per "il processo" Di Franz Kafka, and their stage sources
- Paolo dal Molin, Maderna and the poets, 1938-48

Chronology of Bruno Maderna's works